Persian Lessons (2020)
April 17, 2020
War, Drama
2h 7m


Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of "Farsi" every day and teaching them to Koch.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Vadim Perelman
- Gilles Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
- Klaus Koch Lars Eidinger
- Max Jonas Nay
- Elsa Leonie Benesch
- Camp Commander Alexander Beyer
- Paul David Schütter
- Yana Luisa-Céline Gaffron
- Adjutant von Dewitz Andreas Hofer
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Keywords
- nazi
- concentration camp
- world war ii
- concentration camp prisoner
- german officer
- exhaustion
- fictional language
- jewish